How much does Armed Services YMCA of the USA give?

Armed Services YMCA of the USA reported 23 itemized grants totaling $491,627, out of $506,412 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Armed Services YMCA of the USA fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (53%), Recreation & Sports (44%), Health (1%).

Who are Armed Services YMCA of the USA's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Honolulu Asymca ($4.0M), Armed Services YMCA of the USA ($3.2M), Hampton Roads Regional Asymca ($2.1M).

Does Armed Services YMCA of the USA fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Armed Services YMCA of the USA?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Council of YMCAs of the USA, Veterans United Foundation, The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc.

Where is Armed Services YMCA of the USA based?

Armed Services YMCA of the USA is based in VA.

Armed Services YMCA of the USA

Armed Services YMCA of the USA at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Armed Services YMCA of the USA

The armed services ymca enhances the lives of military members and their families in spirit, mind and body through programs relevant to the unique challenge of military life.

$506k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$70k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$12MRecreation & Sports$10MHealth$299kYouth Development$90kEducation$60kInternational$26kArts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$25k

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 23 grants below total $491,627, the rows itemized in this filing. The $506,412 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,785 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k19 grants · $344k
$50k–250k2 grants · $132k

$14,102

Median grant

States reached

$124M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YMCA OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION	$70,000
WATERTOWN FAMILY YMCA	$61,700
YMCA OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST	$41,385
METRO DALLAS YMCA	$36,450
LIBERTY COUNTY ARMED SERVICES YMCA	$35,100
YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES	$27,693
YMCA OF GREATER OKLAHOMA	$26,650
YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA	$20,040
YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER	$17,100
AUGUSTA SOUTH FAMILY YMCA	$16,250
LAWTON FAMILY YMCA	$15,000
SOUTHERN AZ TUCSON YMCA	$14,102
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE	$12,500
GATEWAY REGION YMCA	$11,500
YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$23M · 44 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+80%

Still filing today

61%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WATERTOWN NY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $457k · revenue +46%
JC
JUNCTION CITY FAMILY YMCA
4× · 2017–2020 · $365k · revenue +246%
YM
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +27%

Funded once

JB
JOINT BASE ANDREWS
one grant, 2017 · $63k
TL
TRAVIS LOGISTICS OFFICER ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2024 · $60k
CL
CAMP LEJEUNE - MARINE CORPS COMMUNITY SERVICES
one grant, 2017 · $41k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Young Men's Christian Association of Central New Mexico

The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…

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Lake County Young Men's Christian Association

The mission of the lake county ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services

The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines

The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…

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Young Men's Christian Association of the Virginia Peninsulas

Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…

Human Services

Young Men's Christian Association of Danville Virginia

The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles in to practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the association is a charitable, community service organization founded and led by volunteers from the…

Human Services

Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association

The shasta family ymca strengthens community through programs and activities that create a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services

Young Men's Christian Association of Brainerd

The mission of the brainerd family ymca is to enhance the lives in the brainerd lakes area by connecting individuals and families with opportunities based on christian values that build a healthy spirit, mind, & body.

Human Services

Cleveland County Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc

The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the y mission is also to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development,…

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Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Denver

The mission of the ymca of metropolitan denver is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. the ymca of metropolitan denver is recognized as the area's largest provider of…

Human Services

Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles

The ymca of metropolitan los angeles ("ymca "la y "the y") advances community well-being by addressing root causes and improving equitable access to services across three integrated areas of impact: healthy living, youth development, and…

Human Services

Young Mens Christian Association

The montgomery ymca, reflecting its judeo-christian heritage, is an association of volunteers, members, and staff open to and serving all, providing programs and services which develop spirit, mind, and body. montgomery ymca statement of…

Human Services

The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)

Guided by our christian principles, we strengthen the spirit mind and body of all individuals.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Young Men's Christian Association of Florida's First Coast Inc; the most unlike its peers is Impact Online Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

24/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$20,550,627Human Services$2,386,767Community Improvement$24,450Philanthropy$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Council of YMCAs of the USAIL48.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Veterans United Foundation · The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Florida State Alliance of Ymcas Foundation Inc · USA Swimming Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Edward Jones Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Armed Services YMCA of the USA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Armed Services YMCA of the USA. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home